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Last Minute Gift Ideas
For music fans with questionable taste. Prince Perfume, this is what it smells like when doves cry. The Chemical Romance prom jacket by Hurley (nee Nike). Metallica light switch plate and Kiss caskets...
View ArticleLou Reed Does it Again
You’ve probably heard about Lou Reed’s multilayered Poe ventures which have taken on various artistic forms—a concept album, formerly a theater piece, and now a graphic novel. And that’s not all.The...
View ArticleNick Cave Monday #46: “Loverman”
There is a sexy beast waiting to rip your clothes off. He’s dealing with a Devil inside because he’s a man with sexual urges.“Loverman” was released on the 1994 record “Let Love In.”We’re Devils in the...
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Sound & Vision #12: Shannon Conley
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. So far I’ve talked with folks whose work...
View ArticleBowie Ballet
The Music Hall of Detroit has commissioned a ballet tribute to David Bowie. Complexions Contemporary Ballet will debut their work at the Music Hall on June 18, with the final piece incorporating...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #73: Prince Rogers Nelson, Guitar Player: A Symposium
The passing into the afterlife of Prince Rogers Nelson was sudden, it was unwarranted, and, because of his very reasonable wish for privacy, it was inexplicable. The outpouring of sentiment that...
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Songs of Our Lives: Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City”
We inexplicably had a jukebox in the cafeteria of my high school, and somebody obsessed with Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City” played it during lunch period every single day for a year. Punk, new wave,...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
A couple of years ago, I stumbled upon a recording on YouTube of the sort that is liberally scattered there if you take the time to look. I’m speaking of whacky conceptual treatments of musical...
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